Waltham Site Analysis Nora abuzarifah
Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach March.6.2015
Model Photos Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach
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Video Stills Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach
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Video Stills Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach
Bus Route 70A Bus Route 505
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Bike Path Walk Path
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Transportation Scale 1/32” = 1’/0” Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach March.6.2015
High Density Area Water Body Commuter rail Moody St Bus Route Pedestrian Walkway Bike trial Buildings facie/interact with river
Location Scale 1/32” = 1’/0” Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach March.6.2015
Buildings Face/Interact with the River
Buildings Face/ Interact with the River
Scale 1/32” = 1’/0” Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach March.6.2015
Site Location Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach March.6.2015
Humans Shaping Nature: 4th Nature City + Nature
3rd Nature Shaped Nature
2nd Nature
Programed Nature
1st Nature Urban Wild
Shaping Nature Scale 1/32” = 1’/0” Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach March.6.2015
Montage 2 Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach March.6.2015
“these huge workings of the earth are a cultural and ideological colonization of first nature, making out a space of second nature by which early civilizations could accomodate themselves to their enviroment... with pole, stone, or tree. -John Dixon Hunt
Nora Abuzarifah Class: LARC2140 Date: Jan-16-2014 Professor : Lisa Giersbach
Buildings NOT facing/ interacting with the water
Buildings facing/ interacting with the water
James Rose Center Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 Lisa Giersbach March.6.2015
“ is nature just a bunch of resources for human use? is nature a web of process that link garden, city, and globe?� -Spirn
Nora Abuzarifah Class: LARC2140 Date: Jan-16-2014 Professor : Lisa Giersbach
Entrance Pavillion A
Flower Shop Pavillion B
Restoration Park Plan and Perspective Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 LARC 2140 Elizabeth Giersbach
Community Garden
Dock
Phytoremediation Garden Farmers Market Pavillion C Cafe
Green Wall
Commercial Building
1/ 64” = 1’ - 0”
Buildings Face/Interact with the River
1/210” = 1’ - 0”
Location
1/210” = 1’ - 0”
Restoration Park Diagrams Nora Abuzarifah Spring 2015 LARC 2140 Elizabeth Giersbach
Collards: lead. Water Hyssop: lead, mercury, cadmium, and chromium.
Blue Tongue: aluminum.
1/132” = 1’ - 0”
Water Hyacinth: Hydrangeas: Sun Flower: cadmium, chromium, aluminum. they draw aluminum mercury, lead, zinc, out of the soil. cesium, strontium-90, uranium, and pesticides.
Phytoremediation
Kale: lead.
Poor Soil due to
Industrialization
Spacial Extrusion
1/100” = 1’ - 0”
Good Soil due to
Phytoremediation
Out Door Rooms
1/100” = 1’ - 0”
Form
1/200” = 1’ - 0”